Craig Southeren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:22:31 -0400 > Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 08:54:53PM +1000, Craig Southeren wrote: >> >> > A problem would only occur if there was a Debian release that contained >> > source code that is is not in the SVN archive. Does this ever occur? >> >> Security updates and NMU's come to mind. > > I'm not sure what an NMU is,
A Non-maintainer upload by some other Debian developer > but why are these not put into the SVN > archive? Mostly because that other Debian developer doesn't necessarily have write access to the maintainer's SVN archive. > Because if it is Debian policy to distribute binaries where the source > code is not guaranteed to be publically available, then yes, I think > that could be a problem regardless of whether the license is MPL or GPL. We always distribute the source code; but we don't *archive* the source code after there's been a new upload with new source code. That's no problem with the GPL, but it appears to be with the MPL. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
